Sam Cooke - Night Beat LP Rap/Hip Hop Rhythm section: Tony Williams &

Rhythm section: Tony Williams & Ron Carter

the band had to wait till 1992 for their biggest commercial success

Letting Go

Blue Suede Shoes

1 hit singles – Message in a Bottle and Walking on the Moon (expanding their spacious

Sam Cooke - Night Beat LP Rap/Hip Hop Rhythm section: Tony Williams &Sam Cooke, inventor and true King of Soul, recorded Night Beat in 1963, an album that was more bluesy and moodier than we had seen before from Cooke. But thanks to his transcendent voice we're never sad when we listen to this album. Melancholy and nostalgia might rear their heads, but there is an uplifting quality to Sam Cooke that has never been surpassed. Night Beat is an album that approaches the music at a slow pace but is never lazy. It is easy